| Not much mention of Trump confirming 16:28 - Dec 9 with 2446 views | giant_stow |
He wants to back Russia and interfer in european elections. Seems like a pretty big deal to me. |  |
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| Not much mention of Trump confirming on 16:20 - Dec 10 with 75 views | DJR |
More from Trump, and clearly Islamophobic and racist.
"[Khan is] a disaster. He’s a disaster. He’s got a totally different ideology of what he’s supposed to have. And he gets elected because so many people have come in. They vote for him now because you know, it’s like … it’s uh, one of those things. But I hate what’s happened to London, and I hate what’s happened to Paris. I hate when I see it." |  | | |
| Not much mention of Trump confirming on 16:27 - Dec 10 with 70 views | Radlett_blue |
| Not much mention of Trump confirming on 16:03 - Dec 10 by itfcjoe |
I'd say Trump is in everything for the money, to close a deal, to 'win', whereas Russia and China are strategic long term players....bringing down the West isn't a Russian objective, it's part of their raison d'etre and everything falls in around that at all times.
Trump sees Putin as what he thinks he is, a guy with both power and money, not adverse to an old shakedown...but doesn't realise that the money is just a by product of the power, where for Trump money is the end goal. |
Russian objectives have changed since the fall of the old Soviet Union. Putin isn't much more of a Communist than Trump. He would like to rebuild the old Russian Empire (hence Ukraine) as this makes Russian stronger against what he sees as a weak, divided Europe with an increasingly reluctant protector in the USA. |  |
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| Not much mention of Trump confirming on 16:48 - Dec 10 with 31 views | Churchman |
| Not much mention of Trump confirming on 16:27 - Dec 10 by Radlett_blue |
Russian objectives have changed since the fall of the old Soviet Union. Putin isn't much more of a Communist than Trump. He would like to rebuild the old Russian Empire (hence Ukraine) as this makes Russian stronger against what he sees as a weak, divided Europe with an increasingly reluctant protector in the USA. |
There is another element to this. Russia is economically not that large. It has geared its economy for war. It needs territory for its economy and prestige.
Hitler did too. Germany was bankrupt by 1941 and an unsustainable war was continued by conquer, pillaging of assets including people as slaves. Does anyone seriously see Putin as so different? |  | | |
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